Installation – Start Here

Your Widget Areas Are As Follows:

Primary Sidebar – Your main sidebar shown on all pages that include a sidebar.
Secondary Sidebar – The smaller of the two sidebars, shown on three column layouts.
Featured Top Full Width – The full width area shown at the top of your home page.
Featured Top Left – The left widget beneath the full width widget area.
Featured Top Right – The right widget beneath the full width widget area.
Featured Bottom Left – The left widget beneath the featured top left widget area.
Featured Bottom Right – The right widget beneath the featured top right widget area.
Footer 1 – The first column of the footer widgets section.
Footer 2 – This is the second column of the footer widgets section.
Footer 3 – This is the third column of the footer widgets section.

Featured Images

By default WordPress will create a thumbnail image for each image you upload and the size can be specified in your dashboard under Settings > Media. In addition, the Adorable child theme creates the following thumbnail images you’ll see below, which are defined (and can be modified) in the functions.php file. These are the recommended thumbnail sizes that are used on the Adorable child theme demo site.blog-excerpt – 250px by 175px (to the left of each blog post on the “blog” page)sidebar-featured – 290px by 175px (Above the Featured Posts/Pages widgets in the sidebar)home-thumb – 300px by 200 px (used on the home page above featured posts)home-top – 660px by 200px (used at the top of home page)

Adorable Settings

Genesis Theme Settings

Media Settings

Slider Settings for “Full Featured” Widget

Slider Settings for Sidebar

Alternate Home Page Setup

The Adorable theme comes with an alternate home page. You can choose between the magazine style default home page and a home page which displays a widget above your most recent blog posts. You can do this one of two ways.

Option 1 – From your desktop

Unzip the Adorable theme file
Find the home.php file and rename it alternate.php
Create a new file and name it home.php
Paste the following code into your new home.php file

';
echo '

';
dynamic_sidebar( 'featured-full' );
echo '

';
echo '

';
}
}
genesis();

Compress (re-zip) the theme file
Upload via your WordPress dashboard

Option 2 – Via FTP

Connect to your server via ftp client
Navigate to your theme file
Find home.php and rename it alternate.php
Create a new file and name it home.php
Paste the following code into your new home.php file

The Pink, Green & Charcoal Option

The Red & Aqua Option

The Teal & Orange Option

Bug Fixes

Bold Text
Bold text is not showing up in some browsers, you can fix this by adding the following to your CSS:

strong {
font-weight: 900 !important;
}

Have a Question?

If after following the setup tutorials you are having trouble with something, please visit our support forum, you may find your question has already been answered. If not, please create a new thread within the Adorable Theme Forum and we will be right with you.

Welcome, Y’all!

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